Abstract: As appeals for public access of research data continue to proliferate, many scholarly publishers—alongside funders, institutions, and libraries—are expanding their role to address this need. Here we outline eight recommendations and a set of suggested action items for publishers to promote and contribute to increasing access to data. This call to action emerged from a summit that brought together data stewardship leaders across stakeholder groups. The recommendations were subsequently refined by the community as a result of public input gathered online and in meetings.

Nice work Carly & Jennifer!

]]>http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2014/10/29/staff-in-print-new-article-in-plos-biology/feed/0Staff in Print—Carly Strasser and Laura Krierhttp://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/11/20/staff-in-print-carly-strasser-and-laura-krier/
http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/11/20/staff-in-print-carly-strasser-and-laura-krier/#commentsWed, 20 Nov 2013 19:41:44 +0000http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/?p=14558More...]]>CDL is pleased to announce that a new book, Data Management for Libraries: A LITA Guide, by Carly Strasser, UC3 Data Curation Project Manager, and former CDL Discovery & Delivery staffer, Laura Krier, was just published and is available at http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=10737.

Here is a brief blurb on the publication:

“Since the National Science Foundation joined the National Institutes of Health in requiring that grant proposals include a data management plan, academic librarians have been inundated with related requests from faculty and campus-based grant consulting offices. Data management is a new service area for many library staff, requiring careful planning and implementation. This guide offers a start-to-finish primer on understanding, building, and maintaining a data management service, showing another way the academic library can be invaluable to researchers. Krier and Strasser of the California Digital Library guide readers through every step of a data management plan by

Offering convincing arguments to persuade researchers to create a data management plan, with advice on collaborating with them

Laying out all the foundations of starting a service, complete with sample data librarian job descriptions and data management plans

Providing tips for conducting successful data management interviews

Leading readers through making decisions about repositories and other infrastructure

This LITA guide will help academic librarians work with researchers, faculty, and other stakeholders to effectively organize, preserve, and provide access to research data.”

Nice work Carly and Laura!

]]>http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/11/20/staff-in-print-carly-strasser-and-laura-krier/feed/0UC3 Makes Customizable Outreach Materials Availablehttp://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/01/31/uc3-makes-customizable-outreach-materials-available/
http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/01/31/uc3-makes-customizable-outreach-materials-available/#commentsThu, 31 Jan 2013 18:44:50 +0000http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/?p=12906More...]]>
At the UC3 Workshops held in November, many of you mentioned wanting access to our outreach materials. Consequently, we have created a page (http://www.cdlib.org/uc3/resources/outreach.html) that pulls together flyers, logos, etc. for all of the services.

Note that these are all customizable so don’t hesitate to give these your own personal touch AND if you do customize them please let us know and we can find a way to share them with your campus colleagues. We also learned at the workshops that you want to hear what other campuses are doing so hopefully we can get these conversations started.

Tracy Seneca, the WAS service manager and project leader since its inception in 2008, is leaving the California Digital Library for a position as Digital Projects Librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Tracy has been a tireless advocate for WAS, and moved it from a grant-funded development project to a production service, no small task. Tracy is a recognized leader in the field of web archiving, as well as a talented designer, project manager and systems analyst, and we will certainly miss her at CDL. CDL is committed to the Web Archiving Service and will work to provide a smooth transition.

We’re very excited to be working with Rosalie again at CDL. We wish Tracy all the best in her new position, and encourage curators with any questions about the transition to contact us at washelp@ucop.edu.

Planned Network Outage, Sunday August 26

IMPORTANT: There will be a planned network outage on Sunday, August 26 that will cause total interruption of many of our services. We will post a more detail schedule of the outage to the CDLALERT-L listserv and to appropriate user groups and listservs. The most recent CDLAlert issued and the CDLALERT-L Archive are viewable on CDL’s System Status page at http://www.cdlib.org/contact/system.html.

New partner: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Welcome to our new partner, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They are the 4th university from the CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation), joining Northwestern, Purdue and the University of Michigan.

WAS Activity, July 2012

98 archives actively collected

2,618 sites collected

2.1 TB of data collected

Upcoming Meetings and Webinars

WAS User’s Group Meeting, Friday August 10, in conjunction with the Society of American Archivists meeting, San Diego.

WAS Service Description

The Web Archiving Service (WAS) enables librarians, archivists and researchers to capture, curate and preserve websites and web‐published materials. WAS makes it easy to build web archives, with scheduling and other tools to help manage your archive. You control public access to your archives and can configure the appearance and navigation of each archive. We also provide collection development consultation and help desk support for web archiving questions.

]]>http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2012/08/16/was-service-update-july-2012/feed/0Portal for Earth Science Data Explorationhttp://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2012/07/23/portal-for-earth-science-data-exploration/
http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2012/07/23/portal-for-earth-science-data-exploration/#commentsMon, 23 Jul 2012 19:47:18 +0000http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/?p=11967More...]]>As research in the Earth and environmental sciences evolves to become more data-intensive, the ability to discover, integrate and analyze massive amounts of heterogeneous scientific information has become critical to enabling researchers to address complex questions about the environment and our role within it. DataONE, the Data Observation Network for Earth, today (July 23) released technology capable of providing researchers access to globally distributed, networked data from a single point of discovery.

The rapidly increasing volume of environmental and Earth science data — from historic observational field notes to modern satellite imagery, to actively updated remote sensor readings — is challenging scientists to locate and integrate pertinent data in a manner that addresses important questions for science and society. How is the spread of invasive species affected by patterns of land use? What factors predict the distribution of emergent infectious diseases, and what are the associated health risks? Are climate models sufficiently predictive? DataONE addresses these needs by providing a single search interface that federates globally distributed data centers. These centers individually store and manage important digital scientific data holdings, and DataONE now helps these centers preserve the holdings, while enabling scientists around the world to discover and add their own data to them for long-term use and sharing. Research enabled by this widespread access to data will range from illuminating fundamental ecological processes to identifying environmental problems and potential solutions.

“Science is entering a new era of data-intensive research,” said William Michener, DataONE principal investigator at the University of New Mexico. “DataONE has been built to support scientists in discovering and preserving data and, most importantly, in enabling new scientific discoveries. DataONE is critically needed now to broaden the nature of, and increase the pace of, science as researchers tackle the grand challenges facing science and society.”

DataONE provides users a suite of tools and training materials that cover all aspects of the research data life cycle, from data collection to management, to analysis and publication.

DataONE offers searchable access to data held by South Africa National Parks, the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity, the Ecological Society of America, Dryad, Oak Ridge National Laboratories Distributed Active Archive Center, the United States Geological Survey, the Long Term Ecological Research Network, the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans and the California Digital Library (CDL). The CDL, through its University of California Curation Center (UC3), has supported the long-term preservation of the university’s digital assets for over 10 years. While originally focused on the management of cultural heritage materials contributed by campus libraries, archives, and museums, UC3 has seen increasing demands for its preservation services by the social and physical science communities.

“We view DataONE as the continuation of our longstanding mission to protect and disseminate the university’s scholarly outputs into the scientific disciplines,” said Patricia Cruse, UC3 director. “It complements and augments a number of other important UC3 initiatives in the preservation area.”

More organizations are joining DataONE to make their data accessible. The Earth Data Analysis Center (EDAC) at the University of New Mexico is “an enthusiastic contributing member of the growing DataONE network,” said Karl Benedict, center director. “For nearly 50 years, EDAC has focused on delivering Earth science and other geospatial data and information to diverse end user communities. Participation in the DataONE network provides us with a great opportunity to extend the impact of our data holdings.”

DataONE is a community-driven organization and the DataONE Users Group provides the opportunity for funders, users, developers, educators, and any other stakeholders to gather and contribute to DataONE products and services. Within, DataONE, experts from library, computer, and environmental sciences can bridge these worlds and provide an infrastructure to serve science for many decades to come.

Another member node soon to be added by CDL and UNM is ONEShare, a special-purpose repository that will accept spreadsheet data from researchers who do not have an explicit affiliation with another existing member node.

“Right now researchers have a hard time even finding the right data to answer complex environmental questions, and when they do, the work necessary to integrate really different types of data can be overwhelming,” said Stephanie Hampton, deputy director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at UC Santa Barbara. “DataONE provides the type of platform we need to propel environmental science into the digital age.”

About DataONE: DataONE is the foundation of new innovative environmental science through a distributed framework and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that meets the needs of science and society for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data. DataONE represents a collaboration of universities and government agencies coalesced to address the mounting need for organizing and serving up vast amounts of highly diverse and inter-related but often heterogeneous, scientific data. It is supported by a $20 million award made as part of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) DataNet program (Grant #OCI-0830944). DataONE features coordination nodes at the University of New Mexico, UC Santa Barbara and University of Tennessee, and member nodes including the California Digital Library,

About the UC Curation Center and the California Digital Library:
The UC Curation Center (UC3) of the California Digital Library (CDL) was established in 2009. UC3 is a central preservation and curation service provider addressing the systemwide needs of the 10 campuses of the University of California, one of the pre-eminent public universities of the world. The California Digital Library provides digital library development and support for the University of California libraries and the communities they serve. For further information contact Patricia Cruse, director, UC Curation Center, at patricia.cruse@ucop.edu or (510) 987-9016.

]]>http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2012/07/23/portal-for-earth-science-data-exploration/feed/0Data and the Scholarly Record: the Changing Landscape: Join us August 24-25http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2011/06/29/data-and-the-scholarly-record-the-changing-landscape-join-us-august-24-25/
http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2011/06/29/data-and-the-scholarly-record-the-changing-landscape-join-us-august-24-25/#commentsWed, 29 Jun 2011 23:59:10 +0000http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/?p=10319More...]]>DataCite will hold its second Summer Meeting on August 24th and 25th at the historic Shattuck Plaza Hotel in Berkeley, California. The Summer Meeting — Data and the Scholarly Record: the Changing Landscape—will be a 1.5 day event hosted by the California Digital Library, and we invite you to participate. You can register at: http://datacite2011.eventbrite.com/ .

The Summer Meeting brings together people from research organisations, data canters, government, and information service providers to hear about the latest developments in data science, data citation, discovery, and reuse. It also provides opportunities to exchange experience and influence the next generation of data citation services.

This year’s program will include sessions on data citation, data publishing, and discussions on the new challenges that come with increasing access to scientific data.

DataCite helps researchers find, access, and reuse data. It is an international not-for-profit association founded in 2009 with members across the globe.

]]>http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2011/06/29/data-and-the-scholarly-record-the-changing-landscape-join-us-august-24-25/feed/0Ensuring Digital Formats Remain Usable: CDL Partnering on Unified Digital Formats Registryhttp://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2011/06/17/ensuring-digital-formats-remain-usable-cdl-partnering-on-unified-digital-formats-registry/
http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2011/06/17/ensuring-digital-formats-remain-usable-cdl-partnering-on-unified-digital-formats-registry/#commentsFri, 17 Jun 2011 18:20:21 +0000http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/?p=10241More...]]>The CDL, with funding from the Library of Congress, is working collaboratively to develop a Unified Digital Formats Registry (UDFR). A post describing this international project is on the LC digital preservation site.

For those not familiar with the project Leslie Johnson, Chief of Repository Development at LC, provided a good example to illustrate how UDFR might be used:

“To illustrate how this might be useful, Johnston provides an example: ‘Say the archive of a famous writer was written with an obsolete program, such as WordStar, which would need to be either rendered for use, or migrated to a more current system.’ So, a decision would have to be made on which program or tool would be used to extract the information from the archive. Johnston notes, ‘UDFR will provide the documentation to help make the decisions, and be incorporated into the tools themselves to make preservation format analysis and action easier.’”

]]>http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2011/06/17/ensuring-digital-formats-remain-usable-cdl-partnering-on-unified-digital-formats-registry/feed/0Learn more about digital preservation, web archiving and data curationhttp://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2011/05/23/learn-more-about-digital-preservation-web-archiving-and-data-curation/
http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2011/05/23/learn-more-about-digital-preservation-web-archiving-and-data-curation/#commentsMon, 23 May 2011 17:39:43 +0000http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/?p=10135More...]]>UC3, CDL is pleased to announce a Summer Webinar Series <http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/uc3webinars.html> highlighting projects, services, and developments in the areas of digital preservation, web archiving and data curation. A goal of the webinars is to raise awareness of these issues, and the resources and services available to the UC community. The webinars will feature librarians, scientists, and technologists.

Webinars are scheduled twice a month on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays from 2-3pm PDT, but check the schedule for exceptions and additions to the summer series. Other topics may be to the initial list. We will use ReadyTalk to provide both desktop and audio access, and will add links to this page for slides, audio recordings, and notes after each webinar. Please feel free to drop in to whatever portion of the session that you can.

We hope to see you there and are looking forward to your questions, ideas, and feedback. If you have a topic that you would like to hear about or would like to present, please contact: patricia.cruse@ucop.edu

Please share this information with your campus colleagues. This series is open to the entire UC community.

]]>http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2011/05/23/learn-more-about-digital-preservation-web-archiving-and-data-curation/feed/0Deposit, save, share, find that content and data: new UC3 services launchhttp://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2010/09/16/deposit-save-share-find-that-content-and-data-new-uc3-services-launch/
http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2010/09/16/deposit-save-share-find-that-content-and-data-new-uc3-services-launch/#commentsThu, 16 Sep 2010 16:59:21 +0000http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/?p=7799More...]]>The University of California Curation Center (UC3) is excited to be launching three new services September 15 and 17, 2010. They include Merritt (named for CDL’s close neighbor, Lake Merritt), a tool for the UC community to manage, archive and share their content safely, persistently and for the long term, EZID (ee-zee-eye-dee), and JHOVE2. EZID provides researchers a way to persistently identify and access a scholar’s research such as datasets, critical to the long-term distribution and availability of the work, and JHOVE2 is improved software for managing digital collections. UC campus colleagues have also contributed to the enhancements of these tools.

Merritt is a next generation service from CDL’s UC Curation Center (UC3) (working with the UC libraries) that provides a trustworthy and dependable environment for the long-term management of a range of digital materials including images, videos, datasets, texts, and more. Merritt enables collection managers to take control of their materials and deposit, archive, share, and disseminate information via an easy to use interface or API. While UC3 will continue to manage content arising from historical partnerships with the UC libraries, the new features of Merritt will allow UC3 to extend the reach of its services to new UC constituencies such as museums, archives, research groups, academic departments, and data centers.

EZID (ee-zee-eye-dee)http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/ezid/index.html is a service providing researchers and others a way to manage identifiers persistently for datasets, files, and resources of all types. The service is available via a machine to machine programming interface (an API) and as a web user interface.

What’s so important about identifier management? Persistent identification of and access to a scholar’s research is critical to the long-term distribution and availability of her or his work. EZID lets you update not only a description of the work, but also its “forwarding address,” so no matter where the work moves, the citable, clickable link to the resource will continue to provide access.

Currently, EZID allows you to acquire DataCite <www.datacite.org <http://www.datacite.org> > Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) or Archival Resource Keys (ARKs), and we plan to add other identifier schemes going forward. In the future, we will also support object deposit options.

All disciplines can benefit from using EZID. It transcends domain boundaries and is applicable to the sciences, humanities and the social sciences. It will work with a range of data types including numerical, images, text sequences, text, digital audio, digital video, modeling data and more.

JHOVE2http://jhove2.org JHOVE is software widely used in libraries, archives, and museums for managing digital collections. In 2008, CDL, Stanford University Libraries and Portico were awarded a grant from the Library of Congress, through the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), to develop the next generation of this software, called JHOVE2. JHOVE2 improves the design of the existing architecture of JHOVE, adds key enhancements, and includes new modules that support preservation-related processes.

JHOVE2 is a powerful tool for determining important properties about a digital file:

1) What is its file format?

2) Is it valid?

3) What are its technical properties?

4) Does it conform to local policy rules?

This information is critical to the long-term preservation of digital collections.

The software is open source, available at <http://jhove2.org>. There have been several beta releases in past 2 years. The next beta release will be Friday, September 17. This release is meant primarily for developers interested in reviewing the current state of the code. A production release of the JHOVE2 application will follow in October. More information can be found on the JHOVE2 website: <http://jhove2.org>.

]]>http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2010/09/16/deposit-save-share-find-that-content-and-data-new-uc3-services-launch/feed/0DataCite: UC Provides Long Term Public Visibility and Access to Research Datahttp://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2010/03/23/datacite-uc-provides-long-term-public-visibility-and-access-to-research-data/
http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2010/03/23/datacite-uc-provides-long-term-public-visibility-and-access-to-research-data/#commentsTue, 23 Mar 2010 17:01:55 +0000http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/?p=3926More...]]>By Patricia Cruse, Director, University of California Curation Center

One of today’s most important priorities for academic scholarship and research is providing long term access to datasets. Data are now seen as the building blocks of scholarship and research in the sciences and humanities. Scholars and archivists recognize the potential for increasing collaboration and synthesis when data are archived, published, and shared, forging the possibility for new discoveries built upon the research of others.

To facilitate the sharing of datasets, the University of California’s California Digital Library (CDL) has become a founding member of the international DataCite consortium, a group of leading academic and scientific memory institutions providing data publishing opportunities for researchers lacking appropriate publication channels and incentives for their datasets.